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* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
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* Albert G. Ingalls ( 1888 – 1958 ), editor of Amateur Telescope Making, Vols.
In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.
* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )
* 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, filmmaker, and graphic artist ( d. 1976 )
* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )
* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )
* 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist ( d. 1964 )
* 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant ( d. 1888 )
* 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer ( d. 1952 )
* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )
* 1888 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor ( d. 1975 )
Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.
* 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier ( d. 1888 )
Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.
* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
* 1815 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator ( d. 1888 )
* 1888 – T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier ( d. 1935 )
* 1888 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist, bandleader, and composer ( d. 1943 )
* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.
* Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( 1888 – 1934 ), first king of Yugoslavia
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The first result of Heidenstam's long sojourn abroad was a volume of poems, Pilgrimage And Wander-Years ( Vallfart och Vandringsar ), published in 1888.
* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
* 1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.
Conservation, as a distinct field of study, initially developed in Germany, when in 1888 Friedrich Rathgen became the first chemist to be employed by a Museum, the Koniglichen Museen, Berlin ( Royal Museums of Berlin ).
In 1888, the promoter of the first expedition to Australia and New Zealand, Arthur Shrewsbury, demanded " something that would be good material and yet take them by storm out here ".
Shaw & Shrewsbury Team, 1888, The first British or Irish touring rugby team, a private-enterprise trip to Australia and New Zealand
In 1899 the British Isles touring side returned to Australia for the first time since the unofficial tour of 1888.
In 1888, Scotsman John Boyd Dunlop introduced the first practical pneumatic tire, which soon became universal.
The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.
Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.
Starting from 1888, Lewis M. Norton taught at MIT the first chemical engineering course in the United States.
The first census covering the unified state took place in 1888.
Edouard van Beneden and Theodor Boveri made the first observation and identification of centrioles in 1883 and 1888 respectively, while the pattern of centriole replication was first worked out independently by Etienne de Harven and Joseph G. Gall circa 1950
The first organized Congolese troops, known as the ( FP ), were created in 1888 when King Leopold II of Belgium, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secretary of the Interior to create military and police forces for the state.
Hilbert's first work on invariant functions led him to the demonstration in 1888 of his famous finiteness theorem.
Detroit's first major league entry was the Detroit Wolverines, a member of the National League from 1881 through 1888.
Incidentally, the first public performance of the poem was on August 14, 1888, by actor De Wolf Hopper, on Thayer's 25th birthday.
However, the first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.
Perhaps the first elaborate and systematic exposition was by John Venn, in The Logic of Chance: An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability ( published editions in 1866, 1876, 1888 ).
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